Cancer and its management /
Souhami, Robert L.
Cancer and its management / Robert Souhami, Jeffrey Tobias. - 5th ed. - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub, 2005. - x, 533 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern management of cancer: an introductory note -- Epidemiolog y, cure, treatment trials and screening -- Biology of cancer -- Staging of tumours -- Radiotherapy -- Systemic treatment for cancer -- Support ive care and symptom relief -- Medical problems and radiotherapy emerge ncies -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Cancer of the head and neck -- Bra in and spinal cord -- Tumours of the lung and mediastinum -- Breast can cer -- Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach -- Cancer of the liver, bil iary tract and pancreas -- Tumours of the small and large bowel -- Gyna ecological cancer -- Genitourinary cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Thyro id and adrenal cancer -- Cancer from an unknown primary site -- Skin ca ncer -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Paediatric malignancies -- Hod gkinâs disease -- Non-hodgkinâs lymphomas -- Myeloma and other para proteinaemias -- Leukaemia.
9781405126366 (alk. paper) 1405126361 (alk. paper)
Neoplasms--therapy.
Neoplasms--diagnosis.
QZ 200
Cancer and its management / Robert Souhami, Jeffrey Tobias. - 5th ed. - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub, 2005. - x, 533 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern management of cancer: an introductory note -- Epidemiolog y, cure, treatment trials and screening -- Biology of cancer -- Staging of tumours -- Radiotherapy -- Systemic treatment for cancer -- Support ive care and symptom relief -- Medical problems and radiotherapy emerge ncies -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Cancer of the head and neck -- Bra in and spinal cord -- Tumours of the lung and mediastinum -- Breast can cer -- Cancer of the oesophagus and stomach -- Cancer of the liver, bil iary tract and pancreas -- Tumours of the small and large bowel -- Gyna ecological cancer -- Genitourinary cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Thyro id and adrenal cancer -- Cancer from an unknown primary site -- Skin ca ncer -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Paediatric malignancies -- Hod gkinâs disease -- Non-hodgkinâs lymphomas -- Myeloma and other para proteinaemias -- Leukaemia.
9781405126366 (alk. paper) 1405126361 (alk. paper)
Neoplasms--therapy.
Neoplasms--diagnosis.
QZ 200